CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Forum

I attempted to install CorelDRAW Suite X3 on Crossover Office 8.0 on a Mac Pro running 10.5 with 4gig RAM. I created a WinXP bottle for CorelDRAW and started the installer from the CD. The installer started but did not complete.

I obtained exactly the same result under Linux (COO 8.0.0 running on OpenSUSE 10.3). The installation stopped at the message "Publishing program information". I just killed MSIEXEC.EXE. When I tried to run CorelDRAW it failed to start and displayed the message "UI Language registration list is invalid".

Then I installed EN.msi (see http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/1748/6342.aspx) in the very same bottle, this installation procedure ended normally.

Then it was possible to launch CorelDRAW normally, I will upload some screenshots. However, it crashed on every attempt to start a new drawing. When I tried to open an existing drawing using the File Open dialog, the Corel Application Recovery Management dialog was displayed and the application became unstables and sometimes crashed.
The good news is that it appeared to be possible to open an existing drawing by clicking on it and selecting CorelDRAW as the application to open it. I could modify the drawing without any problem (tested only a limited number of functions of course). When I used Save As the CARM dialog was displayed again but I managed to save the drawing under a modified name.

All in all, it appears that CorelDRAW is very close to functioning under CXO! The basic drawing functionality works, but some other pivotal functionality is still lacking. It would be really great to have CorelDRAW X3 working because version 11 is not available anymore and is rather old. I also tried X4 but it won't install at all. There is no serious vector drawing package available under Linux (although Xara Extreme (http://www.xaraxtreme.org) is becoming more and more usable).

Regards, Paul.